The (un)Official VMWare ESXi thread.

This is my current VMware setup, which I have a nested VMware solution setup within it.

ESXi Setup

Asus P8B-M
Intel Xeon E3-1230 Socket 1155
Intel 330 Series 120GB
Intel Dual Port ET Network Card
16GB DDR3 ECC PC-1333
Lian Li PC-A04B Black Micro-ATX Mini
430W PSU, Be Quiet Pure Power
1TB Seagate ST1000DM003

iSCSI Setup

HP Microserver
8GB RAM
1 x 250GB
2 X 2TB
Intel Dual Port ET Network Card
Windows Storage Server 2008R2

Obligatory screenshot.

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Click Here for the Intel 82579LM drivers.

I will post a install guide once all parts have arrived.

EDIT: I didn't need to use these drivers in the end, as the ASUS's board NIC's are supported within VMware.
 
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[RXP]Andy;22109902 said:
After spending most of the afternoon reviewing the parts I have gone with the following set up:

Asus P8B-M
Intel Xeon E3-1230 Socket 1155
Intel 330 Series 120GB
16GB DDR3 ECC PC-1333
Lian Li PC-A04B Black Micro-ATX Mini
430W PSU, Be Quiet Pure Power
1TB Seagate ST1000DM003
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Sounds good! How much did that cost you? Would like to see how this would compare to a HP ML110 G7 which is cheap with the cashback!
 
In London I am currently running a HP6300 EVA with 2 trays on fibre channel comprising of 24x640gb disks. Alongside this I am using 3 DL380 G7's with the following spec:



As a backup environment and test bed I am running a seperate cluster comprising of 2 DL 380 G5 Hosts:



And and a hp storage works smart array 1000 with 12x300gb disks. (one of which I am waiting a replacement on).

This is the cab:




At site 2 I have exactly the same, sites are connected with two vpn tunnels one is ethernet first mile and the other sdsl.

Thats about it I think.
 
I need a cheap second server i can run ESXi on. Any suggestions?

I have it running on a Dell 2950. Going to reinstall vCenter on an IBM e326.
 
Well I might not do it this way now, I may just go the VMware Workstation route for getting some VM's up and servers etc to meddle with.

Wanted to get ESXi on as we've just got it in at work and would be good for me to mess around with at home but thinking about it I don't have a spare machine good enough to run ESXi!
 
After reconciling myself to buying a 1950 on ebay my employer has come up with a redundant DL360 G5 ready to roll I can take home for use.
Checking the ESXi support pages I should be okay for version 5 without issue?

I also have access to to some old dl110 G4s, do they all use the same memory? I have checked 2 of them and it appears they all have 2GB of memory in so would rather swap as much as possible into the G5. G5 has 2x146GB sas drives in bays, the G4s are using U320 SCSI 73GB drives.

To answer my own question, no they dont have the same memory. How mcuh memory do I need to run esxi and 2 VMs? (exchange and another 2008 box in a light lab atmosphere.)
 
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Heres my home lab

Biostar NF520D3 Motherboard
AMD Phenom X4 840
16GB Ram
Dell Perc5i
3 x 400GB WD RE2's in Raid 5
Intel GB CT NIC

Runs a treat, ordered some 750GB WD RE3's for faster storage.
 
K@rl said:
I'm running ESXi 5 on my HP Microserver and it's a solid little box.

Simply add some more RAM and disks.

I've got mine running from a USB drive plugged into the back with the images on the HD's

They are sooooo cheap after the £100 cash back that I've ordered a second just as a backup.
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Hi there.

I am currently in the process of getting ESXi 5 on a HP N40L microserver (just waiting for another 4Gb of RAM to show up), and I was wondering how well virtual machines run on it?

Basically, I was wondering how many VM's you can run and how well they get on.

I don't plan anything too taxing, just some flash applications on a website.

Also, what OS do you run in the VM's? Does it have to be Windows Server, or will 7 or XP run on it as well?

Thanks.
 
wesley said:
sorry for a silly question but what's the different between VT-x and VT-d?
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It isn't a silly question :)
VT-x is hardware virtualisation managment, i.e. it can manage the interaction between hardware and multiple guest OS', as of course an OS is not designed to share its CPU and RAM for instance with others.
VT-d is directed I/O, it allows a guest OS almost seemless direct useage of a bit of hardware. For instance you could have a specific PCI-E card that is needed by a guest OS. VT-d is the technology used by VMware directpath i/o that will allow you to directly 'connect' that bit of hardware to the guest OS.
 
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